Haoyi Chen Social and Housing Statistics Section United Nations Statistics Division Outline Global Gender Statistics Programme Overview Main areas of work EDGE project Global Gender Statistics Programme ID: 207999
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Global Gender Statistics Programme
Haoyi
Chen
Social
and Housing Statistics Section
United Nations Statistics DivisionSlide2
OutlineGlobal Gender Statistics ProgrammeOverview
Main areas of workEDGE projectSlide3
Global Gender Statistics Programme
Mandated by the UN Statistical Commission
Coordinated by the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics IAEG-GS
Implemented by the UN Statistics Division/key partners
Goal
:
To enhance the capacity of countries to collect, disseminate and use reliable statistics and indicators to assess the relative situation of women and men in gender-sensitive, policy-relevant areasSlide4
Programme areas and objectives
International CoordinationObjective: Improve global coherence
Methods
Objective: Promote methodological developments
Capacity-Building
Objective: Build technical capacity
Data Management & Dissemination
Objective: Improve access to data and materialsSlide5
Improving coordination and synergies among existing initiatives on gender statistics
1. International Coordination
IAEG-GS
-Since 2007
-International, regional and national agencies
-Annual meetings, 8
th
meeting in 2014
-UNSD secretariat
Global Forums
2
nd
Accra, Jan 2009
4
th
Dead Sea, Mar 2012
3
rd
Manila, Oct 2010
1
st
Rome, Dec 2007
5
th
Aguascalientes,
Nov
2014Slide6
2. Methods/ 3. Capacity-Building
Promoting methodological development and strengthening capacity including in emerging areas of gender concern
Violence against Women
UN Guidelines for the Production of Statistics on Violence Against Women, 2013
Time Use
International Classification of Activities for Time Use Statistics-ICATUS
Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics
New Manual (available online on UNSD Wikiplatform)Slide7
Minimum
Set
of Gender Indicators
Agreed by IAEG-GS in 2011 and by UN Stat Commission in
2013
Data available online
4. Data Management & Dissemination
Data/metadata platform
Continuation of the
World’s Women
series
- Analysis of trends in key areas, review of data
availability
- March 2015: soft launch of the
World’s Women 2015Slide8
United Nations Statistics Division
@
unstats.un.org
/
unsd
/gender
/data
Minimum Set of Gender IndicatorsSlide9
Minimum Set of Gender Indicators
Internationally-agreed indicators to monitor gender equality and women’s empowerment (IAEG-GS 2011 and UN Statistical Commission 2013)
Gender indicators (52)
Gender indicators related to national norms (11)
Five domains
Economic structures, participation in productive activities and access to resources
Education
Health and related services
Human rights of women and the girl child
Public life and decision-makingSlide10
Organization of indicators in Tiers
International data compilation
Promoting capacity building activities
Methodological
developments – e.g., EDGE projectSlide11
Recent activities
EDGE project – Evidence and Data for Gender EqualitySlide12
EDGE ProjectA 3-year initiative (UNSD and UN Women)
Overall objective:Improving the integration of gender issues into the regular production of official statistics for better evidence-based policies
Specific objectives:
Compiling at the international level selected indicators:
Having comparable gender indicators on health, education and employment
Undertake methodological work
on “emerging issues”: Developing methods/guidelines to collect entrepreneurship and assets ownership data, and piloting them in selected countries Slide13
EDGE Results Results of pilot testing in selected countries
Health
Education
Employment
1
International platform for compiling and disseminating data and metadata on health, education and employment;
2
Methodological report on standards for collection of comparable gender indicators related to entrepreneurship and asset ownership;
3Slide14
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/default.html
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